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3.00 Credits
History & Tradition Sector. All classes. Ben-Amos, Stern, Dohrmann. Course topics will vary; they have included The Binding of Isaac, Responses to Catastrophies in Jewish History, and Concepts of Jewishness from Biblical Israel to the Modern State (Stern); Holy Men & Women (Ben-Amos); Rewriting the Bible (Dohrmann).
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3.00 Credits
Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Ben-Amos. In modern American popular culture Jewish humor is considered by Jews and non-Jews as a recognizable and distinct form of humor. Focusing upon folk-humor, in this course we will examine the history of this perception, and study different manifestation of Jewish humor as a particular case study of ethnic in general. Specific topics for analysis will be: humor in the Hebrew Bible, Jewish humor in Europe and in America, JAP and JAM jokes, Jewish tricksters and pranksters, Jewish humor in the Holocaust and Jewish humor in Israel. The term paper will be collecting project of Jewish jokes.
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4.00 Credits
May be counted as a General Requirement Course in History & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course will survey the archaeological history of the southern Levant (Israel, West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, southern Lebanon and Syria) from the early complex societies of the Chalcolithic through the demise of the biblical states of the Iron Age. It will focus in particular on the changing organization of society through time, using excavated evidence from burials, houses, temples and palaces to track changes in heterogeneity, hierarchy and identity. In following the general themes of this course, students will have opportunity to familiarize themselves with the geographic features, major sites and important historical events of the southern Levant. Class materials will be presented in illustrated lectures and supplemented by the study of artifacts in the University Museum's collections. Anyone interested in a better understanding of the land that has given us both the "Old Testament"/TaNak and so much of our daily news, should find much of interest in this course.
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3.00 Credits
May be counted as a General Requirement Course in History & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Ben-Amos. The Jews are among the few nations and ethnic groups whose oral tradition occurs in literary and religious texts dating back more than two thousand years. This tradition changed and diversified over the years in terms of the migrations of Jews into different countries and the historical, social, and cultural changes that these countries underwent. The course attempts to capture the historical and ethnic diversity of Jewish Folklore in a variety of oral literary forms. A basic book of Hasidic legends from the 18th century will serve as a key text to explore problems in Jewish folklore relating to both earlier and later periods.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Wegner. Review and discussion of the principal aspects of ancient Egyptian history, 3000-500 BC.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Spooner. This course relates anthropological models and methods to current problems in the Modern World. The overall objective is to show how the research findings and analytical concepts of anthropology may be used to illuminate and explain events as they have unfolded in the recent news and in the course of the semester. Each edition of the course will focus on a particular country or region that has been in the news.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Fishman. Focusing on the festivals of the Jewish calendar and on Jewish life-cycle events, this course examines primary sources from various periods and places that illuminate changes in Jewish practice, in Jewish understandings of ritual, and in ritual's place in Jewish life.
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3.00 Credits
May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Goldstein. This seminar will examine what Jews living in Muslim lands wrote during medieval times, focusing on a range of primary sources including poetry, Biblle commentary, historiography and polemics. Through these sources we will develop an understanding of the place of this community in Jewish history as well as within the medieval empire of Islam.
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3.00 Credits
Sharkey. This reading- and discussion-intensive seminar will use historical and political analyses, ethnographic studies, novels, and films to consider and compare the experiences of Iraq, Egypt, and Algeria in the modern period. Themes to be covered include the nature of local Arab and Arabic cultures; the impact and legacies of Ottoman and Western imperialism; the development of Islamist, nationalist, and feminist movements; the status of non-Arab or non-Muslim minorities (notably the Iraqi Kurds, Egyptian Copts, and Algerian Berbers); and patterns of social and economic change. The class will culminate in research projects that students individually design and pursue. Some prior familiarity with Middle Eastern or North African studies is required.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Sharkey. This reading- and discussion-intensive seminar approaches the history of modern North Africa (c. 1800-2000) by focusing on the experiences of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and Sudan. Among the issues that we will consider are colonialism and post-colonialism, gender, relations, Islam and political activism, civic participation and authoritarianism, trends in economic development, labor migration, ethnicity and minority affairs, and nationalism. Students will conduct an independent research project and report to the class on their findings at the end of the term. Some prior familiarity with Middle Eastern or African studies is required.
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